Thursday, May 5, 2016

Gone Fishin' Open Thread

Yes, I am going fishin'. Okay, not really fishin', but to a place where they do go fishin'.
I will be back soon with stories to tell and maybe a new perspective of what's going on. But in the meantime, please feel free to keep the homefires burning. I will try to join in as I can.

On Wednesday, he did so — in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News — and added that he wanted Trump to come to Mexico to see the border from the other side.

“I apologize. Forgiveness is one of the greatest qualities that human beings have, is the quality of a compassionate leader. You have to be humble. You have to be compassionate. You have to love thy neighbor,” Fox explained to Breitbart News while sitting in the hotel of the J.W. Marriott in Santa Monica, California on Wednesday afternoon.

It’s a substantial turnaround from the rest of his political career. Herbert was governor when Utah adopted Common Core in 2010, and stood by it as grassroots sentiment against it grew among Republicans. In response to attacks on it in 2014, Herbert ordered two investigations into Common Core to determine whether the standards were legal, whether they ceded authority to the federal government, and whether they were more academically rigorous than what the state had used before.

The reports, released in early 2015, found that Common Core was both legal and more rigorous than the state’s old standards, and Herbert took no further action. For a time that seemed to be the end of things, but on Wednesday Herbert announced he had changed his mind.